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"Ironbottom Sound" (alternatively Iron Bottom Sound or Ironbottomed Sound or Iron Bottom Bay) is the name given by Allied sailors to the stretch of water at the southern end of The Slot between Guadalcanal, Savo Island, and Florida Island of the Solomon Islands, because of the dozens of ships and planes that sank there during the naval actions ...
Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped island lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The 8.5 by 5 kilometres (5.3 mi × 3.1 mi) long Saunders is a volcanic island composed of an active stratovolcano , 990-metre (3,248 ft) Mount Michael , and a ...
Island ecology is the study of island organisms and their interactions with each other and the environment. Islands account for nearly 1/6 of earth’s total land area, [ 1 ] yet the ecology of island ecosystems is vastly different from that of mainland communities.
Iron Island, a 2005 Iranian film; Iron Island, a fictional location in Sinnoh, the continent featured in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl; Iron Islands, a fictional location in the media series Game of Thrones; The Iron Island, a 1910 serial by Edwy Searles Brooks; The Iron Island, a 2015 short story by Jeff Somers
It is a three-island archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is 438 km (272 mi) south of Havana , Cuba , [ 1 ] and 504 km (313 mi) northwest of Kingston, Jamaica , [ 2 ] northeast of Costa Rica , north of Panama and are between Cuba and Central ...
As such, Block Island has a frost free season longer than locations inland. Block Island averages 2300 hrs of sunshine annually (higher than the USA average). Block Island's record high temperature is 95 °F (35 °C) on August 26 and 27, 1948 and the record low is −11 °F (−24 °C) on January 16, 1994.
Tokelau (/ ˈ t oʊ k ə l aʊ / ⓘ; lit. ' north-northeast ' or ' north wind '; [7] known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) [8] is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Also known as Great Skellig (Sceilig Mhichíl in Irish [3]), this is the larger of the two islands, with two peaks rising to over 230 m (750 ft) above sea level.With a sixth-century Christian monastery perched at 160 m (520 ft) above sea level on a ledge close to the top of the lower peak, Great Skellig is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.